Danielle DarrieuxFilmography

Towards Zero

Actors: François Morel, Danielle Darrieux, Melvil Poupaud, Laura Smet, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: By the Pricking of My Thumbs director Pascal Thomas returns to the written word of Agatha Christie for inspiration, and the result is a lively whodunit centering on a deadly family gathering and the exquisite sleuthing skills of hyper-perceptive crime-fighter Superintendent Bataille. For the past Read More

Oh La La!

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Arielle Dombasle, Jean-Chretien Silbertin-Blanc, Andy Gillet, Christophe Vandevelde

Synopsis: Augustin Dos Santos, the cheerfully eccentric struggling actor played by Jean-Chretien Sibertin-Blanc in Augustin and Augustin, Roi du King-Fu, returns to the screen in this comedy from France. Augustin brings his one man show to a retirement home, where he learns one of the residents is Odette Read More

Dangerous Liaisons

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Nastassja Kinski, Leelee Sobieski, Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis: French filmmaker Josée Dayan directs the erotic drama Les Liaisons Dangereuses, based on the 18th century novel by Choderlos de Laclos and updated by screenwriter Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. A co-production of France and Canada, this French-language television miniseries is reimagined with a swinging Read More

8 Women

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen

Synopsis: A gaggle of mothers, wives, daughters, maids, and mistresses gather for a holiday homecoming at their country mansion -- and end up having to solve a murder-mystery -- in this musical-comic homage to studio-era "women's pictures" from acclaimed French director François Ozon. Partly inspired by George Cukor Read More

Ça Ira Mieux Demain

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Jeanne Balibar, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Carré

Synopsis: A screwball comedy that covers one week in the lives of a group of Parisians, Ca Ira Mieux Demain relies on chance encounters between its characters to propel its plot. Included amongst the characters are two girls, Annie (Sophie Guillemin) and Marie (Isabelle Carre); Marie's mother Elisabeth Read More

Les Mille Et Une Recettes Du Cuisinier Amoureux

Actors: Pierre Richard, Micheline Presle, Nino Kirtadze, Timur Kamkhadze, Kakhi Kavsadze, Ramaz Chkhikvadze, Jean-Yves Gautier

Synopsis: A comically accented historical drama with culinary appeal, this film introduces us to Pascal Ichac (Pierre Richard), a French chef with a nose so sensitive that he can decipher the ingredients in a sauce with a single sniff. A true renaissance man, Pascal is a genius in the kitchen and a trained Read More

The World of Jacques Demy

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Demy's wife Agnes Varda helmed this intensely personal tribute to her late husband. It is her third such tribute and is the only one to look deeply into Demy's vision as a director and his filmmaking techniques. To do so, she uses perfectly preserved film clips from each of Read More

Les Mamies

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Sophie Desmarets, Odette Laure, Paulette Dubost

Le Jour des Rois

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Paulette Dubost, Micheline Presle, Michel Galabru

Quelques Jours Avec Moi

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Vincent Lindon

Synopsis: Claude Sautet's A Few Days With Me (Quelque Jours avec Moi) stars Daniel Auteuil as the emotionally disturbed heir to a supermarket empire. Auteuil's mother Danielle Darrieux tries to give her son some purpose in life by assigning him the task of reinvigorating one of the supermarket chain's least Read More

Bille En Tete

Actors: Thomas Langmann, Kristin Scott Thomas, Danielle Darrieux, Patrick Raynal, Michel Albertini

Synopsis: Based on a popular novel with the English title Devil in the Flesh by Alexandre Jardin, this little drama tells the story of Virgile (Thomas Langmann), a sixteen-year old boy who has grown tired of being a virgin, and decides to seduce Carla (Kristin Scott-Thomas), an older woman. Rather to his Read More

Le Lieu du Crime

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Danielle Darrieux, Victor Lanoux

Synopsis: Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du Crime) begins with a quote from Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Nicolas Giraudi, picking flowers in a cemetery, is surprised by escaped criminal Wadeck Stanczak, who orders the boy to bring him some money. Displaying no signs of fear, Giraudi does what he is Read More

Tu Crois Pas Si Bien Dire

Corps Et Biens

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lambert Wilson, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Sabine Haudepin

Synopsis: In a standard tale of intrigue and foul play, Michel Sauvage (Lambert Wilson) has just gotten away with murder and is now marrying rich heiress Ariane (Ingrid Held) in hopes of taking all she's worth. Unfortunately for Michel, the murder victim's hard-fisted, tippling neighbor Madam Krantz (Danielle Darrieux Read More

En Haut Des Marches

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Hélène Surgère, Francoise Lebrun, Nicolas Silberg, Gisèle Pascal

Synopsis: Françoise Canavaggia (Danielle Darrieux) heads back to Toulon in 1963 with murderous plans for the people who now inhabit the villa that had once been hers. After arriving in Toulon, Françoise meets up with her sister and a niece, both adding to her tendency toward self-analysis. But with images Read More

Une Chambre En Ville

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Richard Berry, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: In the style of an operetta, like director Jacques Demy's more famous film the Umbrellas of Cherbourg, this melodramatic story is set in Nantes in 1955 and centers around the tragedies of three or four intertwined lives. First, there is the young steel worker (Richard Berry) who is out on strike Read More

Le Cavaleur

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Catherine Alric, Catherine Leprince, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama (with English subtitles). ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Holy Year

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Henri Virlojeux

Synopsis: In this caper comedy, Jean Gabin plays Lambert, an escaped convict in search of some robbery money he hid a long time ago. He and a companion, disguised as priests, take a plane into Rome. On the way their plane is hijacked, and, in order to get to their money, they must stop the hijacking. Read More

Divine

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Le Poulain, Richard Fontana

Synopsis: It is difficult enough for Marion (Danielle Darrieux) to be an actress who is rapidly approaching the has-been stage; after all, she was once a great tragedienne. She must also cope with the insistent attentions of a young man (Richard Fontana) who is infatuated with her. This pleases neither the Read More

The Lonely Woman

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Gina Lollobrigida, Susan Hampshire, Renaud Verley

La Maison De Campagne

Actors: Jean Richard, Danielle Darrieux, André Luguet, Xavier Gélin, Guy Tréjan

Synopsis: This situation comedy finds a married couple from Paris longing for the bucolic existence of a simple country life. The father (Jean Richard) is talked into the move by his wife (Danielle Darrieux), who believes the move will enhance their social status. After they decide to buy and old mill, they Read More

Les Oiseaux Vont Mourir Au Peru

Actors: Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Pierre Brasseur, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring his wife Jean Seberg, it is the chronicle of a nymphomaniac who feels compelled to have sex with every man she meets. As the sordid tale begins she is engaged in group sex Read More

Vingt-Quatre Heures de la Vie d'une Femme

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Robert Hoffman, Lena Skerla

Synopsis: Alice (Danielle Darrieux), a widowed Frenchwoman, goes on a vacation to Italy. Upon her return, she relates the particulars of her holiday. Within a 24-hour time frame, Alice gets on the wrong boat, winds up in Switzerland where she whiles away the hours at a casino, meets a handsome young German Read More

Le Dimanche De La Vie

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Pierre Moulin, Oliver Hussenot, Françoise Arnoul, Hubert Deschamps

Synopsis: Julia Danielle Darrieux is a woman who marries a younger man in this pre-World War II drama. The newlyweds settle down and run a store inherited by the bride. With storm clouds of war on the horizon, the woman's brother-in-law makes a small fortune dealing in guns and ammunition, and when war Read More

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac) live in the small coastal town of Read More

Birds Do It

Actors: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling

Synopsis: Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been specially assigned to make sure that none of the nuclear warheads there get dusty. It's not easy because spies run around spreading dust. One day the janitor stumbles into Read More

Le Coup de Grace

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Riva, Oliver Hussenot

Synopsis: Bruno (Michele Piccolo) returns for some strange reason to the small French town where he was an informant to the Nazis in this plodding drama. Sophie (Emmanuelle Riva) is a single woman who falls for Bruno partially out of fear of becoming an old maid, but Bruno falls in love with the sister of a Read More

Patate

Actors: Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Anne Vernon, Pierre Dux, Sylvie Vartan

Synopsis: In this French comedy, a toy inventor travels to the factory of his childhood friend, now an industrial magnate, and tries to persuade him to lend financial backing to his newest invention. Unfortunately their reunion is marred by the reopening of old emotional wounds, but fortunately, the Read More

Du Grabuge Chez Les Veuves

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Pascale de Boysson, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: Dany Carrel and Danielle Darrieux star in this adaptation of a novel by Jean-Pierre Ferriere. Attending the funeral of her husband, a widow notices a stranger present. The stranger turns out to be a woman who was involved with a drug deal her deceased husband was making. Now the stranger is after Read More

Mefiez-Vous Mesdames

Actors: Paul Meurisse, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Sandra Milo

Synopsis: This light comedy finds a troubled attorney the focus of a woman's murder plot. He answers newspaper ads of women seeking companionship only to meet up with a wife who is willing to have her husband murdered for his infidelities. When the attorney poses as a millionaire, he finds more than his Read More

Landru

Actors: Charles Denner, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Juliette Mayniel

Synopsis: This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed, and dismembered over 10 women during WW I. He obtained his victims by placing ads in the Personals section of the paper. He then chose wealthy dowagers in their fifties. First Read More

Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements

Actors: Michel Simon, Françoise Arnoul, Jean-Claude Brialy, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Aznavour, Alain Delon, Fernandel, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: Filmmaker Julien Duvivier returns to the multistoried format of his earlier omnibus films Tales of Manhattan and Flesh and Fantasy with the 1962 French production The Devil and the Ten Commandments. Actually, there are only seven separate episodes in the film, covering such commandments as "Thou Read More

Les Lions sont lachés

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: Henri Verneuil directs a star-studded cast in this slight satire about love and life in the big city. Claudia Cardenale, in her first French film, appears as Albertine, a sexy divorced woman from the countryside who goes to Paris and becomes involved with the fashionable elite. Lino Ventura is Read More

Night Affair

Synopsis: A police inspector on the trail of the murderer of a nightclub owner falls for the dead man's drug-addicted mistress. He tries to get her to talk, but the commissioner suspects her and wants the case solved, so he orders her arrested. She disappears, and the inspector is led to the home of the Read More

Loss of Innocence

Actors: Kenneth More, Danielle Darrieux, Susannah York, Jane Asher, Claude Nollier

Synopsis: A young Susannah York had her first lead role in this drama about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood. When her mother falls ill during a vacation in the French wine country, 16-year-old Joss Grey (York) is left to her own devices as she and her three younger siblings are left in the reluctant Read More

Les Bras De La Nuit

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Les Bras de la nuit is another of the typical love vs. duty stories in which a police inspector, Landais (Roger Hanin) is caught in a tough situation. Daniele (Danielle Darrieux) is a killer -- she has murdered her husband -- yet after the inspector starts investigating the case, he is completely Read More

Murder by Two

Synopsis: Five murder suspects are brought forward by investigators for their motives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

L'Homme à Femmes

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Mel Ferrer, Catherine Deneuve, Claude Rich

Synopsis: This is an uninspired murder mystery directed by Jacques-Gérard Cornu about the unfortunate and unnatural demise of a blackmailer. Gabrielle (Danielle Darrieux) is married to Georges (Mel Ferrer) but both she and her niece had been involved with the blackmailer who is now dead. Assigned to the Read More

Les Yeux De L'Amour

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Rosay, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: In this standard wartime melodrama, forty-two-year-old Danielle Darrieux plays Jeanne, an unmarried, older woman with a miserable mother who harps on the supposed "fact" that Jeanne is ugly. Jeanne comes into close association with Pierre (27-year-old Jean-Claude Brialy) a young blind man who is Read More

Marie-Octobre

Actors: Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Serge Reggiani, Danielle Darrieux, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: This suspensful drama finds ten members of the underground uniting fifteen years after the end of World War II. Nine men and a woman come together to expose a traitor among them. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Meurtre en 45 Tours

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Michel Auclair, Jean Servais, Henri Guisol

Synopsis: Danielle Darrieux stars in this Belgian chiller as a songstress whose obsessively jealous husband suddenly dies. Feeling free for the first time in years, Darrieux inaugurates a romance with Michel Auclair. But even now she is the victim of her husband's omnipresence; evidently returning from the Read More

Le Septième Ciel

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Noël-Noël, Paul Meurisse, Gérard Oury

Synopsis: Though the title of this French drama translates to Seventh Heaven, it bears no relation to the classic 1927 silent film of the same name. Danielle Darieaux plays a widowed philanthropist with a most unorthodox method of raising money for her many charities. Courted by con men and sharpsters Read More

Un Drôle de Dimanche

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Bourvil, Arletty, Cathia Caro, Jean-Paul Belmondo

Synopsis: Un Drole de Dimanche (What a Sunday) stars Danielle Darrieux as Catherine and Bourvil as her ex-husband Jean. By chance, Catherine and Jean are reunited five years after she walked out of his life. In a fit of romantic nostalgia, Jean mentally reconstructs the events that led up to their Read More

La Vie a Deux

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Danielle Darrieux, Fernandel, Edwige Feuillère, Louis de Funès

Synopsis: French filmmaker Sacha Guitry had intended to direct as well as write 3DLa Vie a Deux3D (3DLife as a Couple3D), but death claimed him before he could bring his plan to fruition. Adapted from Guitry's original by Jean Martin and directed by Clement Duhor, the film offers an all-star cast in a Read More

Le Desordre Et La Nuit

Actors: Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Nadja Tiller, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Director Giles Grangier adapted the screenplay of Les Desordre et la Nuit from his own novel. Jean Gabin stars as Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police. Vallois takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Read More

Pot-Bouille

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Jacques Duby, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: The second of director Julien Duvivier's two cinematic contributions of 1957 was Pot-Bouille (Boiling
Pot). Based on a novel by Emile Zola, the film stars Gerard Philipe as Octave, an opportunistic Parisian youth who hops from bed to bed -- and from bedmate to bedmate. Young or old, plain or Read More

Typhon sur Nagasaki

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Marais, Keiko Kishi

Synopsis: This Franco-Japanese production made the American TV rounds as Typhoon Over Nagasaki. Jean Marais heads the cast as Pierre, a French engineer working in the titular Japanese metropolis. Ignoring social and racial conventions, Pierre falls in love with local girl Noriko (Kishi Keiko). The fly in Read More

Alexander the Great

Actors: Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While Read More

Si Paris Nous Etait Conté

Actors: Sacha Guitry, Jean Marais, Françoise Arnoul, Danielle Darrieux, Robert Lamoureux, Michèle Morgan

Synopsis: Producer/director Sacha Guitry's contribution to the 1956 film season was the free-flowing historical pageant Si Paris Nous Etait Conte (If Paris Were Told to Us). Guitry himself appears as the ghost of King Louis XI, who relates the story of Paris to a group of fascinated modern-day students. As Read More

Le Salaire Du Péché

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Pascal, Jeanne Moreau, Jean Debucourt

L'Affaire Des Poisons

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Viviane Romance, Anne Vernon, Paul Meurisse

Synopsis: L'Affair des Poisons is an unusual murder yarn, set during the reign of France's King Louis XIV. Danielle Darrieux stars as Mme. De Montespan, who is, to use the common 17th century euphemism, a "favorite" of the French monarch. When she is cast aside by His Majesty, Mme. De Montespan schemes to Read More

Napoléon

Actors: Raymond Pellegrin, Daniel Gélin, Sacha Guitry, Michèle Morgan, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis: Showing no signs of slowing down in his 70th year, Sacha Guitry served as director and writer of the lavish historical epic Napoleon, and also costarred as Talleyrand. It is now hard to assess the quality of the film, since most American prints are severely edited, and the color photography Read More

L'Amant de Lady Chatterley

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Erno Crisa, Leo Genn, Jean Murat, Berthe Tissen

Synopsis: It took over thirty years for D. H. Lawrence's "forbidden" novel Lady Chatterly's Lover to make it to the big screen, courtesy of director Marc Allegret. Updated to the 1950s, the film stars Danielle Darrieux as Lady Constance Chatterly, comfortably married to wealthy invalid Lord Clifford Read More

The Hangman and the Witch

Bonnes a Tuer

Actors: Michel Auclair, Danielle Darrieux, Corinne Calvet

Synopsis: Michel Auclair is the leading character (he certainly isn't the hero!) in the French Bonnes a Tuer (Ripe for Killing). A two-bit hustler from a poor family, Auclair manages to break into society by seducing and abandoning a series of female domestics. Once he's made it to the big time, he lines Read More

Le Rouge et le Noir

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Martinelli, Antonella Lualdi, Jean Mercure

Synopsis: Stendhal's brilliant but difficult novel Le Rouge et le Noir all but defies transfer to film, but adaptor/director Claude Autant-Lara comes within shouting distance of full success. Stripped to essentials, the plot concerns Julien Sorel (Gerard Philipe), a carpenter's son who becomes a tutor. Read More

Chateaux En Espagne

Actors: Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis: Chateaux en Espagne (Castles in Spain) was written and directed by former cinematographer Rene Wheeler. When her boss dies suddenly, secretary Genevieve (Danielle Darrieaux) is stranded in Spain. Genevieve seeks shelter in the home of her boss' brother, famed bullfighter Mario (played by real-life Read More

Escalier de Service

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Robert Lamoureux, Etchika Choureau

Synopsis: Escalier de Service (Service Entrance) charts the misadventures of gorgeous maidservant Marie-Lou (Etchika Choreau). After fainting in public, Marie-Lou is allowed to convalesce in the apartment of a handsome photographer. Feeling a bit frisky one morning, our heroine begins to recall isolated Read More

Madame de...

Actors: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Mireille Perrey

Synopsis: Max Ophüls' masterpiece stars Danielle Darrieux as the titular Madame Louise de..., who in the film's opening scenes is forced to discreetly sell a pair of earrings, a gift from her military officer husband Andre (Charles Boyer), in order to make good on her debts. After she claims the earrings to Read More

Le Bon Dieu Sans Confession

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Henri Vilbert

Synopsis: Le Bon Dieu Sans Confession is one of the lesser-known works of prolific French filmmaker Autant-Lara. Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois (Henri Vilbert) falls in love with Janine (Danielle Darrieux), another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she Read More

Adorables Créatures

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gélin, Antonella Lualdi, Edwige Feuillère, Marilyn Buferd, Martine Carol

Synopsis: Newly married Daniel Gelin spends most of Adorable Creatures reflecting longingly on his previous amours. One of his past conquests was unhappy housewife Danielle Darrieux. Another was insatiable widow Edwige Feuillere. And yet another was avaricious Martine Carol (then married to director Read More

Le Plaisir

Actors: Claude Dauphin, Jean Galland, Gaby Morlay, Madeleine Renaud, Daniel Gélin, Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin

Synopsis: The works of Guy de Maupassant have likely been adapted by more French filmmakers than those of any other author (with the possible exception of Georges Simenon). Max Ophuls harnesses three Maupassant short stories to suit his artistic purposes in Le Plaisir (House of Pleasure). In "The Mask," an Read More

5 Fingers

Actors: James Mason, Danielle Darrieux, Michael Rennie, Oscar Karlweis, Herbert Berghof, Walter Hampden

Synopsis: Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of the British ambassador to Ankara during World War II, Cicero is actually a Nazi agent. He holds no particular political viewpoint: the Nazis offered the best price, so for the Read More

Rich, Young and Pretty

Actors: Jane Powell, Danielle Darrieux, Wendell Corey, Vic Damone, Fernando Lamas

Synopsis: Rich, Young and Pretty succinctly describes Jane Powell, the heroine of this frothy MGM musical. Vacationing in Paris with her father, Jim Stauton Rogers (Wendell Corey) -- a cattle baron-turned-politician, Elizabeth Rogers (Powell) falls in love with handsome Andre Milan (Vic Damone, in his film Read More

La Verite Sur Bebe Donge

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Gabin, Gabrielle Dorziat, Claude Genia

Synopsis: La Verite sur Bebe Donge is another "socko" pure-entertainment vehicle from prolific French filmmaker Henri Decoin. The film stars Decoin's former wife Danielle Darrieux as the title character Bebe Donge, the wife of industrialist Francois Donge (Jean Gabin). Concerned only with surface values Read More

La Maison Bonnadieu

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Bernard Blier, Françoise Arnoul, Yves Deniaud

Synopsis: Set in fin de siecle Paris, La Maison Bonnadieu stars Bernard Blier as a middle-aged bourgeois husband named Felix. Much to his discomfort, Felix learns that his wife Gabrielle (Danielle Darrieux) is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that Read More

All for Love

La Ronde

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series of character vignettes, set in Vienna in the early 1900s and held together by a narrator (Anton Walbrook). As the title implies, both the story and the film's visual motifs Read More

Toselli

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Rossano Brazzi, Charles Rutherford, Vira Silenti

Occupe-Toi d'Amelie

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jean Desailly, Julien Carette, André Bervil

Synopsis: This French comedy was released variously in the U.S. as Look After Amelie and Oh, Amelia. The eponymous heroine, played by Danielle Darrieux, is the potential bride of playboy Marcel (Jean Dessally). He wants to marry her to land an inheritance. Marcel's plans are blown to bits when Amelie falls Read More

Ruy Blas

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Marais, Alexandre Rignault, Marcel Herrand

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Ruy Blas was adapted for the screen by no less than Jean Cocteau. The title character, played by Jean Marais, is a dashing nobleman-turned-bandit operating in 17th century Spain ("played" by France and Italy). Marais is also seen as a bookish student who happens Read More

Jean De La Lune

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jeanette Batti, Claude Dauphin, François Perier

Bethsabee

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Georges Marchal, Paul Meurisse, Andrée Clement

Synopsis: Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous Read More

Adieu Cherie

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Gabrielle Dorziat, Louis Salou, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Danielle Darieux stars in the French romantic drama Adieu Cherie (Goodbye Darling). Darieux plays a Parisian woman of affairs who falls in love with wealthy young Jacques Berthier. In the tradition of Camille and Waterloo Bridge, the heroine tries her best to be accepted by Berthier's respectable Read More

Au Petit Bonheur

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, François Perier, Paulette Dubost, André Luguet

Synopsis: French film favorite Danielle Darrieux had only recently cleared herself of a wartime "collaboration" charge when she starred in Au Petit Bonheur. The title translates as Happy Go Lucky, perfectly capturing the tenor of the film. Things aren't so happy at the outset, however, not with wealthy Andre Luguet Read More

La Fausse Maitresse

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Lise Delamare, Bernard Lancret, André Alerme

Caprices

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Albert Prejean, Jean Parédès

Premier Rendez-Vous

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Ledoux, Rosine Luguet, Jean Tissier, Sophie Desmarets, Gabrielle Dorziat

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a lonely orphan answers a singles ad in a paper and then slips out of the orphanage to meet the man whose letters she has come to love. However, the college professor she meets has actually been ghost writing for the real lonely heart. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Battement De Coeur

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Junie Astor, Claude Dauphin, André Luguet

Synopsis: Heart Throbs is the rather prosaic English title of the French romantic comedy Battlements de Coeur. Danielle Darrieux plays an impoverished reform-school escapee who finds a new lease on life when she enrolls in a school for pickpockets run by Fagin-like Saturnin-Fabre. Before long, Darrieux is Read More

Retour A L'Aube

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Dux, Jacques Dumesnil, Therese Dorny

Synopsis: Retour a L'Aube (Return to the Dawn) exists primarily as a showcase for the delectable Danielle Darrieux. Fascinated by train travel, Darrieux impulsively marries railroad stationmaster Pierre Dux. Upon receiving an inheritance from a relative in Budapest, our heroine seizes the opportunity to Read More

The Rage of Paris

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Mischa Auer, Louis Hayward, Helen Broderick

Synopsis: This late-30s gem is an engaging spoof that features the U.S. film debut of the French acting beauty Daniell Darrieux. She appears as a French model who's come to New York to find a job. Things go a little awry in her first interview when she applies for a nude modeling position and gets the Read More

Katia

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Marie-Helene Daste, John Loder, Aimé Clariond

Synopsis: Incredibly, Maurice Tourneur's 1938 romantic tragedy Katia has been designated as "delightful" by more than one film historian. Perhaps this description was meant to refer to Tourneur's leading lady, the undeniably delightful Danielle Darrieux. Set during the mid-19th century, the film dwells upon Read More

Abus de Confiance

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel, Valentine Tessier, Jean Worms

Synopsis: French director Henri Decoin was married to actress Danielle Darrieux for nearly seven years during which time he cast her in several uninspiring vehicles such as this one. Darrieux plays Lydia, a struggling law student who poses as the estranged daughter of famous historian Jacques Ferney (Charles Vanel Read More

Counsel for Romance

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Henri Garat

Synopsis: Danielle Darrieux stars as a scatter-brained college coed who miraculously becomes a lawyer. Her father would prefer that she give up the law in favor of marriage, but our heroine intends to out-Portia Portia in the courtroom. She gets her big chance when she's hired to defend Henry Garat, a Read More

Meet Miss Mozart

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Mingand, Pauline Carton

Synopsis: This French musical comedy was based on the stage play Mademoiselle Mozart, written by Yvan Noe, who also co-directed the screen version. Danielle Darrieux plays Denise, the owner of a music shop that is facing closure. Wealthy young Maxime (Pierre Mingand) falls in love with Denise but knows full Read More

Mademoiselle Ma Mere

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Larquey

Synopsis: Mademoiselle Ma Mere was adapted for the screen from the stage farce by Louis Verneuil. The title translates as My Mother is a Miss, and thereby hangs the tale. Spoiled rich girl Jacqueline (Danielle Darrieux) vows to marry the seventh man who proposes to her, no matter who he may be. The lucky Read More

Port Arthur

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Charles Vanel

Synopsis: Though the Czechoslovakian film industry had been "nationalized" by the Nazis after the 1938 invasion, a few pre-war productions managed to sneak into the U.S. without German interference. One of these was Port Arthur, originally released in 1936. Set in the Russian city of Port Arthur, the story Read More

Club De Femmes

Actors: Valentine Tessier, Danielle Darrieux, Josette Day, Betty Stockfeld, Else Argal, Georgette, Eve Francis, Junie Astor

Synopsis: The Club de Femmes (Girl's Club) of the title refers to a Parisian boarding house, populated in its entirety by beautiful, unwed damsels. The rules of the club are quite strict, with chaperones making certain that the ladies keep a safe and respectable distance between themselves and their Read More

Mayerling

Actors: Charles Boyer, Jean Dax, Jean Debucourt, Marthe Regnier, Danielle Darrieux, Suzy Prim, Gabrielle Dorziat

Synopsis: Based on Idol's End, a novel by Claude Anet, the French Mayerling is based on the tragic real-life story of Hapsburg Crown Prince Rudolph and his mistress, Baroness Marie Vetsera. Since the details of Rudolph and Marie's lives and deaths are clouded in controversy, much of the film is romanticized Read More

Tarass Boulba

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Harry Baur, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Janine Crispin

Un Mauvais Garcon

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Henri Garat, André Alerme

Quelle Drole De Gosse

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Albert Prejean, Lucien Baroux, Jeanne Helbling

Le Domino Vert

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Jany Holt, Maurice Escande, Charles Vanel

Mademoiselle Mozart

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Pauline Carton

J'aime Toutes Les Femmes

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Marcelle Praince, Jan Kiepura

Le Controleur Des Wagons Lits

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Alice Tissot, Albert Prejean, Lucien Baroux

La Crise Est Finie

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Albert Prejean, Suzanne Dehelly

Synopsis: Released abroad as The Slump is Over, this backstage comedy pokes gentle fun at the Depression-era French bourgeoisie. Director Robert Siodmak concentrates on the trials and tribulations of a young and impoverished theatrical troupe. Recently fired by their temperamental leading lady, the actors Read More

Dede

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Mireille Perrey, Albert Prejean, René Bergeron

Mon Coeur T' Appelle

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Rolla France, Jan Kiepura

L'Or Dans La Rue

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Vanda Greville, Albert Prejean, Raymond Cordy

Mauvaise Graine

Actors: Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis: The legendary Billy Wilder made his debut as a director with this comedy, shot in France (in collaboration with Alexander Esway) shortly before Wilder emigrated to the United States. Henry (Pierre Mingland) is a carefree young man who has fallen out of favor with his wealthy father, a doctor. Read More

Chateau De Reve

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Edith Mera, Lucien Baroux, Jaque Catelain

Volga En Flammes

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Albert Prejean, Valery Inkijinoff

Panurge

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Gerard Sandoz, Vincent Hyspa

Le Coffret De Laque

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Rene Alexandre, Maxime des Jardins, Marcel Vibert, Alice Field

Synopsis: Le Coffret de Laque (Lackered Box) was based on Agatha Christie's Black Coffee, previously filmed in England in 1931. Gaston Dupray stars as Christie's insufferably brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, here depicted along more comic lines than usual. The story gets under way at a weekend Read More

Coquecigrole

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Gina Barbieri, Max Dearly

Synopsis: Coquecigrole was adapted from a novel by Alfred Marchard. Max Dearly stars as a washed-up stage actor who unofficially adopts a young orphan girl nicknamed Coquecigrole (Daniele Darrieux, in her second film appearance). Working "between engagements" as a waiter, the old actor becomes friendly with Read More

Le Bal

Actors: Germaine Dermoz, Lucie Mannheim, Reinhold Schuenzel, Danielle Darrieux, Marguerite Pierry, André Lefaur, Gertrud Wolle, Paul Otto, Vanda Greville

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Helen Nimirosky, The Ball was filmed simultaneously in German and French-language versions. The French adaptation, Le Bal, served to introduce 14-year-old Danielle Darrieux to the picture-going public. Darrieux plays the daughter of a pair of delicatessen owners who suddenly Read More